Universal power law of the gravity wave manifestation in the AIM CIPS polar mesospheric cloud images

Rong, Pingping; Yue, Jia; Russell III, James M.; Siskind, David E.; Randall, Cora E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-883-2018

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-883-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-883-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 2

Research article

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24 Jan 2018

Research article |

| 24 Jan 2018

Universal power law of the gravity wave manifestation in the AIM CIPS polar mesospheric cloud images

Pingping Rong, Jia Yue, James M. Russell III, David E. Siskind, and Cora E. Randall

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Final revised paper (published on 24 Jan 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 16 Aug 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review of acp-2017-733', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 1', P.P. Rong, 16 Sep 2017
RC2: 'reviewer comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Aug 2017
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer 2', P.P. Rong, 16 Sep 2017
RC3: 'Anonymous Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 12 Sep 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to Reviewer 3', P.P. Rong, 16 Sep 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by P.P. Rong on behalf of the Authors (12 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (16 Oct 2017) by William Ward

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (26 Oct 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (27 Oct 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Nov 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (19 Nov 2017) by William Ward

AR by P.P. Rong on behalf of the Authors (26 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (16 Dec 2017) by William Ward

AR by P.P. Rong on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

There is a massive manifestation of atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) in polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs) at the summer mesopause, which serves as indicators of the atmospheric dynamics and climate change. We obtained a universal power law that governs the GW display morphology and clarity level throughout the wave population residing in PMCs. Higher clarity refers to more distinct exhibition of the features. A GW tracking algorithm is used to identify the waves and to sort the albedo power.